Arkansas man stands trial in 3-year-old boy’s shooting death

August 21, 2018

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A murder trial has begun for an Arkansas man accused of firing his gun into another driver’s car and killing a 3-year-old boy who was in the back seat.

Gary Eugene Holmes is charged with first-degree murder in the December 2016 death of Acen King. The boy’s grandmother says she was stopped at a stop sign when Holmes honked his horn, got out of his car and fired into her car.

According to a police affidavit, a woman who was in Holmes’ car told investigators that he was angry because he thought the car behind him was tailing him too closely.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Holmes’ attorney, Ron Davis, told the Little Rock jury on Tuesday that Holmes’ gun went off inadvertently and that he didn’t intend to fire it.